The Maison Dagourette, which has housed the Musée Basque since 1924, is a 16th-century harbor house on the banks of the Nive river, in the heart of Petit Bayonne. The Musée Basque houses the most important ethnographic collection dedicated to the Basque Country.
Objects and works of art, mostly collected in the early 20th century, bear witness to the way Basque society functioned at the dawn of the great upheavals of the modern world. They also tell the story of Bayonne, a seaport and river port at the crossroads of Basque, Gascon and Jewish cultures…